Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 2 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 3 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 4 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 5 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 6 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 7 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 8 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 9 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 10 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 11 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 12 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 13 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 14 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 15 | My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train . |
| 16 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 17 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 18 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 19 | When I got out on the street , I would just keep going . |
| 20 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 21 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 22 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 23 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 24 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 25 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 26 | I falled over on the living room . |
| 27 | I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance . |
| 28 | This time I waited to make sure before I ventured out on the jetty , but it was Neil 's boat , and Neil himself standing ready to step out of it as it nosed in alongside the landing-place . |
| 29 | I came up on the pools ! |
| 30 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |